Building LibreOffice for x86_64 starting to fail in an odd way recently,
<http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=5091173&name=build.log&offset=-4000>,
I stripped that down to what I would assume is a newly introduced bug in
how ld resolves weak references?

Given a test.s of

"gcc test.s" builds fine, while "gcc test.s -lcom_err", i.e., including
a reference to some .so that in turn needs libpthread, fails with

I've recently joined Red Hat's OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice team, so I'll
probably want to get my hands dirty with the corresponding Fedora
packages in the future.

My background: I've been a core member of OpenOffice.org development
for 14 years. I'm mostly taking care of the lower code layers, and have
also been deeply involved in areas like building, testing, and packaging
the code. (So its hopefully not all Greek to me here...)